Supervision for democracy

2:48 PM,
Aug. 16, 2013

Written by

Ken Patterson
OPINION

Democracy has been the main story in local news lately. Examples include Rep. Patrick McHenry's town hall meetings, state government passing disenfranchising voting legislation and Moral Mondays drawing thousands to protest the General Assembly's slighting of the people of North Carolina. And in a very positive development, a bipartisan bill (H606) is gaining support in the N.C. House that would hand the redistricting process to a nonpartisan panel versus the party in power at the time of the next census. These stories are evidence that democracy is alive, not always well (e.g. voting ...